we will talk to abel and attica shortly. big night in washington.bring you the latest headlines. the republican congressman like johnson has narrowly won reelection for the most powerful seat in the u.s. house of representatives. mr. johnson was donald trump for house speaker but in a tense first round of voting, three fellow republicans cast ballots for someone else. at the last minute, two switched their vote to support him just before the gavel came down. the white house says u.s. president joe biden will travel to new orleans on monday. a vigil has been set up on bourbon street for the 14 people killed in the new year's day attack. the family of the man who carried out the attack said they are struggling to understand what motivated him to do it. severe weather warnings have been issued for parts of england and wales for parts of the weekend. amber warnings for snow and ice which could bring hazardous travel conditions. up to 30 centimeters of snow fall expected in some places and temperatures could fall as low as -10 degrees. apple has agreed t

in fact, it has been alleged that the attica riots in the early 1970s were a directory result of a perception among the inmates of sentencing disparity isn't then the executive director of commission that has developed this remarkable grid. we saw on the graphic a moment ago. how did you and your commission about deciding how months this person who was convicted of aggravated robbery should get. why 49 months rather than 67 or 32? like any policy development process? there were many things that were looked at to come up with the final grid. the commission had to determine not only the length of imprisonment for those that went to prison, but the commission also had to determine how many people and kinds of people should go to prison in the first place, rather than be on probation with perhaps local jail time. and so there were a lot of decisions that had to be made. we as every state, has limited correctional resources in which to offenders that we want to incarcerate. and that became certainly constraint on what the commission could in terms of developing sentences. and therefore, it became